One shared installation
Everyone adds a species to the same piece. The species co-exist on it, so it grows through the day.
Alien Ecosystems: invent what grows on an alien planet, and how the species there depend on one another.
A child invents an alien species, then works out what it needs from the others around it. Cut and stuck card, tissue paper and sticks.
Two routes. Both can run. Follow whichever the child in front of you wants.
Everyone adds a species to the same piece. The species co-exist on it, so it grows through the day.
One world per child, built inside a shoe-box lid like a paper theatre. Elements stand at different depths.
Talk first, make second. The question is not what an alien looks like, it is what it lives on.
What would be growing on your planet? What does it look like?
What does it need from the others to grow?
Things on Earth do that for each other too. Would it work the same way in space?
Alien and earth ecosystems and landscapes, on the table to look at. They are what the talking starts from.
Thin coloured card, cut to shape and drawn on with pens. Glue stick to join, masking tape where it needs to hold.
Tissue paper for anything soft, frilled or see-through. Sticks to hold a shape up off the surface.
For a mini world. Stand pieces at different depths inside the lid, nearest at the front, so it reads as a scene rather than a flat collage.
Clear the room first. The job is taking things out to open the space, not bringing more in.
Then mark the areas out with masking tape on the floor.
Offcuts cleared, scissors back in the pot, lids stacked.
The shared installation is not cleared. It is the one thing here that accumulates.
On the table: scissors, glue stick, pens, masking tape, thin coloured card, tissue paper, sticks, shoe-box lids.
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